Re: Day & month names
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 1, 2000, 20:40 |
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Raymond Brown wrote:
> It would be very confusing, I think, to use the same
> set of names for months in two different calendar systems. AFAIK the
> practical Chinese just numbered the western months.
Chinese seems to tolerate a lot of this kind of ambiguity, though.
IIRC the terms for "gram" and "kilometer" are reassigned Chinese terms
for traditional measures of roughly similar size.
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